--- title: Families who own a house usually pay the bank back a bit every month… — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics description: Families who own a house usually pay the bank back a bit every month; when that payment goes up, there's less for extras like holidays. Who acts: Families, payment. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Families, payment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:36 # text = Families who own a house usually pay the bank back a bit every month; when that payment goes up, there's less for extras like holidays. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 own own VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 usually usually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:expl 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 parataxis _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 extras extra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **own** | present | Families | a house | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme | | 2 | **pay back** | present | Families | the bank | | | month | a bit *obl:unmarked*; usually *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Asset | | 3 | **go up** | present | that payment | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | for extras like holidays; less *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:36`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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